CCM shares fall 2022 schedule of performances and public events
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 30
• Faculty Artist Series •
Russell Burge, vibraphone; Sergio Pamies, piano; Aaron Jacobs, bass; and John Taylor, drums
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: FREE
4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3
• Guitar Series •
50th ANNIVERSARY GALA CONCERT
Classical Guitar Ensemble
Christopher Wilke, director
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of CCM’s Classical Guitar program with a special concert featuring distinguished alumni in solos and ensembles performed by Amy Brucksch, Duane Corn, Brian DeLay, Murray Holland, Luke Jackson, Julie Goldberg, James Meade, Leighann Narum and Matthew Trkula. The concert will include the world premiere of three new works written for the occasion by Wenbin Lyu, Christopher Teves and Christopher Wilke, as well as a guitar orchestra made of alumni and current students. The gala also recognizes the program’s founder, Professor Emeritus Clare Callahan, with the launch of a new scholarship named in her honor to help promising young guitarists achieve their dreams.
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Tickets: $19.50; student and group discounts available.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6
• CCM String-Quartet-in-Residence •
OPENING CONCERT
Ariel Quartet
Described by the American Record Guide as "a consummate ensemble gifted with utter musicality and remarkable interpretive power," the Ariel Quartet has earned a glowing international reputation. The ensemble is comprised of Alexandra “Sasha” Kazovsky, violin; Amit Even-Tov, cello; Gershon Gerchikov, violin; and Jan Grüning, viola. The group was formed in Israel in 1998 and has served as CCM’s string quartet-in-residence since 2012.
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in G major, Op. 18, No. 2
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in D major, Op. 18, No. 3
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Tickets: $29.50; student and group discounts available.
4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11
• Winds Series •
OF THEE WE SING
CCM Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble
Kevin Michael Holzman and Thomas Gamboa, music directors and conductors
The CCM Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble perform music by American composers commemorating historical events, places and culture.
Wind Ensemble:
JOLLEY: Motordom
LO PRESTI: Elegy for a Young American
MILBURN: American Hymnsong Suite
NELSON: Savannah River Holiday
Wind Symphony:
ZARE: We Choose to Go to the Moon
DANYEW: Into the Silent Land
WARD (ARR. DRAGON): America the Beautiful
COPLAND: Lincoln Portrait
GOULD: Symphony No. 4, “West Point”
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $19.50; student and group discounts available.
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11
• Faculty Artist Series •
Dror Biran, piano
Featuring guest artists Paul York, cello; and Geoffrey Herd, violin
Showcasing piano trios by Claude Debussy and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13
• Faculty Artist Series •
Soyeon Kate Lee, piano
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14
• Orchestra Series •
THE OCEAN
CCM Concert Orchestra
Aik Khai Pung, music director and conductor
Featuring faculty artist Quinn Patrick Ankrum, mezzo-soprano
SIBELIUS: The Oceanides, Op. 73
ELGAR: Sea Pictures, Op. 37
FRANCK: Symphony in D Minor
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE
1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16
• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •
WOMEN AUDIO PRODUCERS AND ENGINEERS, AND THE CASE AGAINST GENDER VENTRILOQUISM
Helen Reddington, Senior Lecturer in Music Production at the University of East London
This talk will focus on women professionals in the UK music industry. Reddington’s The Lost Women of Rock Music (Equinox, 2012) features women punk instrumentalists in the UK in the late 1970s, speaking through the lens of history. These experiences, voiced by the women themselves, challenged the male narrative of the subculture and indeed its very maleness. Reddington’s She’s at the Controls (Equinox, 2019) follows the same methodology, this time focusing on much more recent accounts by women in the music industry. It focuses both on the reasons why it is important that women have equality of access to the music industries, and the impact of often invisible male gatekeeping on the end product (the music) that we listen to and map our lives to. Reddington will discuss issues raised by the women producers and engineers that she interviewed and will contextualize these within the central concept of the book: that of gender ventriloquism.
Location: Online via Zoom. Contact Professor Jeongwon Joe for details.
Admission: FREE
7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16
• Orchestra and Choral Series •
HOPE, FATE, TRIUMPH
CCM Philharmonia, Chamber Choir, Chorale and UC Choruses
Mark Gibson, music director and conductor
Joe Miller, music director
Brett Scott, Reina Dickey and Isiah Maxey, conductors
The CCM Philharmonia opens its 2022-23 season with former Guggenheim Fellow Nkeiru Okoye’s Voices Shouting Out, which the composer wrote in response to 9/11. In her words, “it was a march to acknowledge those fighting on behalf of our safety, and yet a sparkling celebration of life for those who continue living.” Then CCM choirs and UC Choruses join the orchestra for Brahms’ Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) and Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68.
NKEIRU OKOYE: Voices Shouting Out (2002)
BRAHMS: Schicksalslied, Op. 54
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $25; student and group discounts available.
7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18
• Jazz Series •
DON’T GIT SASSY: THE MUSIC OF THAD JONES
CCM Jazz Orchestra
Scott Belck, music director
Thad Jones’ big band music embodies the height of sophistication, the depths of hard driving swing, the relentless groove of the blues, and the beauty of a compositional style like no other. Join us for an evening celebrating the swinging music of this American jazz master.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $25; student and group discounts available.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20
• Faculty Artist Series •
Pavel Vinnitsky, clarinet; and Ilya Finkelshteyn, cello
Featuring guest artist Anna Vinnitsky, piano
WEBER: Grand Duo concertant, Op. 48
A. VINNITSKY: Spring of 2020: Four Months Without Words for Clarinet and Piano
BRAHMS: Trio in A Minor for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 114
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE
8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23
• CCMpower Special Event Series •
30 YEARS OF STEPHEN: THE MUSIC OF STEPHEN FLAHERTY
CCMpower Fundraising Gala
Join us for the world premiere of a theatrical concert featuring works by CCM alumnus and Broadway composer Stephen Flaherty. The performance features CCM students with alumni and Broadway stars Christy Altomare, Ashley Brown, Jason Graae, Aaron Lazar, Bryonha Marie, Stephanie Jae Park, Alton Fitzgerald White and other surprise guests. Audiences will also experience the premiere of two never before heard compositions performed by Flaherty himself! Proceeds benefit CCM student scholarships and projects.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: Tickets on sale August 15. Special ticket pricing and limited seating. Sponsorship and ticket information available online.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27
• Jazz Series •
IN THE TRADITION
CCM Jazz Lab Band
Craig Bailey, music director
Featuring swing music from the masters, including Count Basie Thad Jones, Duke Ellington, Bill Holman, Woody Herman and more.
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $19.50; student and group discounts available.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27
• Faculty Artist Series •
Michael Chertock, piano
Featuring faculty artist Dror Biran, piano, and guest artist Charles Morey, violin
A performance of works by Grieg, Rachmaninoff and Fiday.
Location: Robert J. Werner Recital Hall
Admission: FREE
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27
• Faculty Artist Series •
Ric Hordinski, guitar
Featuring guest artists Ted Nelson, cello, and Eric Bates, violin
Original works for six- and 12- string, fretted and fretless, prepared and under-prepared guitar.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: FREE
8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29
8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30
2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2
• Play Series •
CINCINNATI DIONYSIA:
LYSISTRATA + THE TROJAN WOMEN
Adapted by Ellen McLaughlin
Brant Russell, director
Caitlin Hines, dramaturg and director of movement
Megan Steigerwald-Ille, musicology consultant
Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptations of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Euripides’ The Trojan Women tell stories of women impacted by war and their struggle to take control of their fates. A satirical comedy, Lysistrata focuses on women who try to end the Peloponnesian War by going celibate until their men see reason and lay down their arms. Known as the first anti-war play in the western canon, The Trojan Women focuses on the surviving women who grapple with grief, fear and the total devastation of their homes after their city’s defeat in the Trojan War.
Estimated runtime: 2 hours plus an intermission
Location: Patricia Corbett Theater
Tickets: $32.50; student and group discounts available.
7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29
• Winds Series •
MINIMALIST MASTERS
Musica Nova
Kevin Michael Holzman, music director and conductor
CCM Musica Nova’s inaugural concert features the music of renowned minimalist composers, including Steve Reich’s stunning audio/visual collaboration Reich/Richter.
ADAMS: Son of a Chamber Symphony
PÄRT: Fratres
REICH: Reich/Richter
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Admission: FREE
1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30
• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: VARIETIES OF INVERTIBLE CANON IN THE LONG SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Denis Collins, Associate Professor in Musicology from University of Queensland, Australia
This presentation takes as its starting point a seeming error in a musical example in Gioseffo Zarlino’s Le istitutioni harmoniche (1558). Careful comparison with similar examples shows that all of his examples are correct as notated. They demonstrate a contrapuntal technique that results in a type of invertible canon in performance. This lecture points to other situations where Zarlino’s theories can help in unravelling the complexities of 16th-century counterpoint. It also discusses how canons, including those that employ complex procedures, enjoyed a long history as title pages or frontispieces to manuscript collections or printed volumes of music. These canons were often presented in geometric shapes whose symbolic significance could be reinforced by accompanying artwork or textual commentaries.
Location: Online via Zoom. Contact Professor Steven Cahn for details.
Admission: FREE
7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30
• Winds Series •
MASTERWORKS
CCM Wind Symphony
Kevin Michael Holzman, music director and conductor
The CCM Wind Symphony performs masterworks by world-renowned composers.
MENNIN: Canzona
GOTO: A Wild Rose Above
LUKÁS: Musica Boema
DICKERSON: Essay for Band
GOTKOVSKY: Symphonie pour grande orchestra d’harmonie
Location: Corbett Auditorium
Tickets: $19.50; student and group discounts available.
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